As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering and ...

There is a new encoding format from the creators of H.264, H.265, and MP3 that aims to cut the size of 4K and 8K video in half. Dubbed H.266 VCC (Versatile Video Coding), and created by Fraunhofer in ...

In this excerpt from his presentation at Streaming Media West, Twitch's Tarek Amara discusses the current crop of codecs for live streaming and VOD and the comparative compression efficiencies of each ...

intoPIX has launched a new generation of UHDTV codecs to answer the growing interest for 4K and 8K resolutions. The ULTRAHDTV JPEG2000 codecs, called IPX-JPUHD, have been developed on the new ...

LONDON—The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published V-Nova’s VC-6 video codec as the SMPTE ST-2117 standard, the company announced today. Ratification of VC-6 as a SMPTE ...

Forced compression of large video files compromises streaming integrity.

Socionext’s MB86M30 is a 4K/60p HEVC Multi Format Codec. The device has low power consumption and embedded four DRAMs in package. It can be used in various applications such as broadcasting, IP video ...

Vitec is launching a new broadcast quality openGear (OG) card encoder, the MGW Diamond+ OG, at NAB Show. The card is a 4K/Multichannel HD, HEVC, H.264 and MPEG-2 encoder with SDI and SMPTE-2110 input ...

H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for ...